Rise Again
Short Fiction
Published in
8 min readJul 10, 2021
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A little bit late into the evening, but not too late, was the ideal time for Jim to skinny-dip in the lake that flows in the backside of his house. His son, who lives somewhere else, had anticipated that this day would finally come, the day he would lose his father in those waters. When he got the phone call, he did not react.
